moth orchid
English
Noun
moth orchid (plural moth orchids)
- Any of the genus Phalaenopsis of orchids.
- Synonym: phalaenopsis
- 2019 April 10, Adrian Higgins, “This florist started caring for ailing orchids on the side. He’s now babysitting 13,000.”, in The Washington Post:
- He babysits the orchids that you bought and bloomed and are now watching decline in a stupor of regret, shame and despair. Give Chadwick that flowered-out, wrinkled old moth orchid you got a couple of months ago and he will nurse it back to blooming health.
References
moth orchid on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Phalaenopsis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Phalaenopsis on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - Phalaenopsis at USDA Plants database
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